By writing
a large number of Assamese short stories, Syed Abdul Malik elevates himself to
a position not easily attainable. Therefore, some critics honour him with the title,
“Emperor of Assamese Short Stories”. In his writings, we find vividness of
emotion and maturity of description of woman mind. These characters can be
divided into different types- townswomen, women from the villages and middle
class women. This paper seeks to analyse a few noticeable female characters
from a few significant short stories of Malik. To accomplish this purpose, both
primary and secondary data have been used.

Key words: Post-war Era, Emperor of
Short Stories, Female characters

1.Introduction

Syed
Abdul Malik, who came into prominence as a short story writer in the Awahan
Era, is also regarded as one of the best short story writers of Post-war Era. He
enriched the granary of Assamese literature by creating an empire of his
writings- sixty eight novels, twenty one short story collections, near about
two thousand short stories, thirteen stage and radio plays and documentaries,
two books of humorous writings, two anthologies of poems, three travelogues,
five books for children and many research articles. Especially, he has written
more stories than any other Assamese litterateurs. Thus by writing a large
number of short stories, Syed Abdul Malik elevates himself to a position not
easily attainable. Therefore, some critics honour him with the title, “Emperor
of Assamese Short Stories”. In his writings, we find vividness of emotion and
maturity of description of woman mind. These characters can be divided into
different types- townswomen, women from the villages, middle class women and so
on.

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